Director HEMA EMEA

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Job Function:

Market Access

Job Sub Function:

Health Economics Market Access

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, Pomezia, Roma, Italy, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Role Purpose:

The Director, HEMA Surgery EMEA, is accountable for defining and executing HEMA strategy for our Surgery portfolio across EMEA. The role ensures that health economics, reimbursement and access strategies are fully aligned with Surgery EMEA business priorities, accelerating patient access and driving sustainable growth across the region through the development and execution of robust health economic arguments and tools that support value demonstration, funding and procedural adoption.

The primary location for this role is Switzerland.

Exceptional candidates outside Switzerland will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with key global, regional, and local external and functional collaborators to define and execute the EMEA Surgery HEMA strategy, aligned with business and portfolio priorities.

• Act as the strategic HEMA partner to Surgery EMEA leadership to ensure the alignment of market access activities with overall business objectives.

• Embed HEMA into regional strategy, lifecycle planning, and key investment decisions.

• Direct the design and execution of EMEA-level health economics research, including RWE studies, budget impact and decision-analytic models, care-pathway and resource-use analyses

• Lead development and dissemination of economic evidence, publications, and value narratives in EMEA markets

• Lead strategies to secure and optimise reimbursement, funding, and adoption of Surgery technologies, including DRGs, add-on payments, procedure codes, and coverage decisions.

• Monitor healthcare reform, reimbursement, and policy trends, advising leadership on implications.

• Enable cross-market best-practice sharing and capability development.

• Engage with payers, HTA bodies, policy makers, and professional societies
• Lead managers and senior individual contributors. Proactively creates a purpose driven environment by aligning Johnson & Johnson’s Credo and Leadership Imperatives.

• Accountable for team performance, coaching, capability building, succession planning, and budget.

Qualifications: 

Required Education:

• Advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, MHA, MBA) in health economics, outcomes research, or healthcare-related field is required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in the healthcare industry is required.
• Strong technical background in evidence-based medicine, health economics, reimbursement or health policy with a demonstrated track record of success is required.
• Previous experience working in the medtech industry is preferred.
• Strong understanding of the healthcare environment, the external marketplace and market access requirements in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region is required
• Demonstrated ability developing and executing market access strategies for market access and adoption
• Strong understanding of HEMA analytical methods, e.g., statistics and economic modelling. Ensure awareness and use of new and evolving digital techniques (e.g., Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Automation (IA)
• Ability to work from strategy development to execution and value creation in a dynamic organization including creating value strategies, development and deployment of evidence supported claims, input to pricing strategy, models, tools and value-based programs (e.g., VBAs) aligned with evidence and business strategy, throughout the product lifecycle.
• A strong understanding of medical delivery systems, reimbursement, market access conditions and health policy trends in major global markets is required.
• Solid knowledge of evidence needed to drive favorable reimbursement and market access is required.
• Experience leading health economic or outcomes research studies from concept through publication (including management of research vendors or consultants) preferred.
• Demonstrated track record in working in a cross-functional, matrixed environment is preferred.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Agility Jumps, Commercial Awareness, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Intelligence, Global Market, Go-to-Market Strategies, Health Economics, Health Intelligence, Market Knowledge, Market Opportunity Assessment, Mentorship, Pricing Strategies, Regulatory Compliance, Strategic Change, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility